got to love spring break!

Hahahaha!! That comic is pretty funny!

I gotta say, this is an awesome game, and really carries the feel over from the rest of the series. Although they updated the graphics to 3D, it's still a side-scrolling action game, and it's HARD. But with a second person it's amazing fun.

Anyone who loves old-school games (pretty much everyone here) should check this out. Awesome game. :)

Alright, I just saw this movie for the first time, and I'm willing to bet that you've all already seen it. That being said, can someone explain to me what the hell was the point of it? It was going so cool, until they killed everybody. What the hell happened at the end? Is that supposed to leave me feeling happy or suicidal? Any insight is welcome here.

Quote:Monolith Soft has posted an official statement in their homepage, stating that the company is currently working on a new RPG, which will be heading to both GameCube and PlayStation 2.

Quote:According to recent details Giftpia is set to feature multiple players and have no real goal, just like Animal Crossing.

The newspaper also added that Giftpia's creators Skip Ltd were the first company created with the money from Nintendo's "Fund-Q". It also stated that Nintendo has provided half of Giftpia's 500 million yen (about $4.5 million USD) budget.

Quote:Today the top two game publishers in the world announced their plans to work together to provide exclusive features for connected play between EA's GameCube and Game Boy Advance games. The games will be designed by EA, but Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto will provide a lot of creative input. Madden NFL 2004 will be the first game created under this partnership, and will be released this August. FIFA 2004 and Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2004 will also take advantage of this agreement, both of which are expected to be released this Fall. Over the next year EA plans to introduce 20 new GameCube titles, many of which are expected to include a connection to Game Boy Advance. "This is the year when the full potential of our exclusive ability to connect console and handheld gaming becomes clear with the delivery of unique game entertainment," said Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Nintendo of America George Harrison, "This bold alliance to build connectivity into some of the world's most popular entertainment franchises will underscore that in unique and powerful ways."

EA's Executive Vice President of North American Publishing, Nancy Smith, had this to say about the deal, "This agreement means that three of the world's most popular sports games -- Madden NFL football, FIFA soccer and Tiger Woods PGA TOUR golf -- are going to include a new way to play, and new way to compete on Nintendo systems."

This game is the bee's knees! Everyone should get it, and we should all get online and blast each other and stuff. Come on!

Quote:BEIRUT (Reuters) - Two red double decker buses and a white London taxi that ferried anti-war activists to Baghdad to serve as "human shields" are stranded in Beirut with their owner short of the $5,500 it costs to ship them home.
The buses and taxi, dusty after a six-week overland journey that began at London's Tower Bridge, were plastered with signs saying "No to a war on Iraq" and "No to war, Yes to peace."

"The buses have to be shipped back. It's just not practical to drive them...I am not even really sure how much money I've got, but I'm sure it's not enough," said owner Joe Letts, adding that he would fly to London on Thursday to try to raise cash.

"I thought I would let people know it's a problem," he added, sitting in a makeshift kitchen on his bus in central Beirut.

Letts said he left London with 45 human shields of 10-12 nationalities, and picked up a dozen or so more in Turkey before arriving in Baghdad, where he spent a week sleeping in a power station hoping to prevent a possible U.S.-led attack.

"We were taken to see some of the installations that the Iraqis thought were suitable for protection," he said, adding that he had feared a bombing campaign could start at any time.

"We painted a huge sign on the roof saying human shields, so when any planes bombed the target, they'd see they were killing us -- Englishmen and Finns and Turks."

Some 50 other Swedish anti-war human shield activists who had traveled to Iraq began to leave on Monday, saying they had wanted to protect hospitals and schools but had been forced out to refineries, power plants and water works.

Letts said about 200 human shields, including many who traveled on his bus, remained in Baghdad when he left. But he said that although he stayed on as a shield for a week, he had no intention of staying in Baghdad for the duration of a war.

"I own these buses and they are my livelihood and my family's livelihood. And all along I was there really to take the people down and then come back," he said.

When he left London, he thought he had enough money to pay to ship the buses home, but ended up spending his personal finances to help pay for the trip.

"I had promised my wife I would get the buses home," he said. "If I don't get them home, we're absolutely stuck."

Quote: BAGHDAD - A movement intended to encourage Western anti-war activists to travel to Iraq and discourage a U.S.-led war has apparently fizzled.

Just a few weeks ago, dozens of activists arrived in Baghdad, declaring themselves "human shields" and vowing hundreds of others would join them in putting their lives on the line.
But few are still there.

They came to stand by civilian locations to make sure hospitals and water works didn't become military targets in a bombing campaign.

But some complained Iraqi officials tried to make them take up positions near military sites.

They also squabbled amongst themselves, and many ran out of money. Some left when a massive movement of anti-war protesters failed to materialize in Iraq.

Many insist their efforts weren't wasted, that they influenced public opinion about the possibility of war.

If anyone has any questions they'd like answered about Splinter Cell for GameCube, post them here before Friday.